A Child from Gaza Gets a New Leg in Israel
Three months after losing a leg when she got hit by a truck in Gaza City while playing near a main road, a little girl named Yara is walking again, thanks to a prosthesis fitted for her at Barzilai Medical Center in Ashkelon.
Initially, the child was treated at Shifa Hospital in Gaza, where she underwent several surgeries including amputation. The wound site became necrotic, meaning that the cells were dying, and her parents put in a request to Hamas for permission to get medical care in Israel.
Heidi Klum Is the News Face of Israeli Company Wix
The Israeli-founded company Wix.com has harnessed the good looks and entrepreneurial reputation of the German-born beauty, supermodel Heidi Klum, in a new advertisement. The website building platform features supermodel Heidi Klum along with actor Rex Lee in a commercial that hit television screens last week. In the minute-long ad, the former Victoria's Secret Angel demonstrates how Wix makes it easy to create a web presence, even for the busiest of jet-setters and multitaskers.